Many of you know that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I work full time from home now, so dressing up in the “office” isn’t as fun. However, my husband’s company is having a family-friendly Halloween party on the afternoon of October 31. We will be getting our costumes ready this week.

Even better than dressing up is coming up with a creative and clever costume! I lean more on the funny and pun related costumes, especially for dressing up at the office. In 2016, I started this series with my first round-up of A/E/C inspired costumes and updated the list in 2018. I couldn’t let another year pass without finding a few more costumes to add to the list! I am always amazed at the creative folks in our industry.

So, here is my updated A/E/C and marketing inspired costumes for 2019.

Engineering:

Kudos to UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering teaching professor Justin Opatkiewicz for his Halloween costume this year. He came dressed to class as a–chemical engineering–stripper (see picture above). For those of you who are not ChemE majors, that’s “a physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream. Stripping is usually carried out in either a packed or trayed column,” according to Wikipedia.

Pumpkin Pie

Who doesn’t love a good Pi pun?

LED Tron

When STEM becomes STEAM

Architecture & Planning:

Exposed Brick

Back to the Drawing Board

Point A to Point B or Google Maps

Permitted and Unpermitted

Marketing:

Click Farmer

Click farms may not be the most honorable way of growing your numbers, but they do lend themselves to a pretty admirable costume. 

Adobe Creative Suite

This is a great idea to get your entire marketing department involved.

White Space

Dress in all white. Boom. Costume. 

Pantone Colors/Swatches/Palette

Another great group idea is to pick out your favorite Pantone colors and dress up like the swatches.

While these updated costumes are pretty clever, my personal favorite is still the……

Proposal Fairy!

She turns technical garble into beautiful proposals.

Proposal Fairy

Does your firm or office dress up for Halloween? Do you have a great A/E/C and/or marketing-related costume? Leave the pictures in the comments below or our Facebook Page.

What is your A/E/C-themed Halloween Costume?

Tell me in the comments below.